burn the midnight oil

burn the midnight oil
Synonyms and related words:
be behindhand, be late, be overdue, bone, con, contemplate, dig, do double duty, drill, elucubrate, examine, get up late, go over, grind, hit the ball, hustle, keep everyone waiting, keep late hours, lucubrate, miss the boat, oversleep, overwork, peruse, plunge into, pore over, pour it on, practice, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, scratch, show up late, slave, stay late, stay up late, study, sweat, swot, vet, wade through, work hard, work late, work overtime

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  • burn the midnight oil — {v. phr.} To study late at night. * /Exam time was near, and more and more pupils were burning the midnight oil./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • burn the midnight oil — {v. phr.} To study late at night. * /Exam time was near, and more and more pupils were burning the midnight oil./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • burn the midnight oil — If you stay up very late working or studying, you burn the midnight oil …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • burn the midnight oil — ► to work late into the night Main Entry: ↑burn …   Financial and business terms

  • burn the midnight oil — ► burn the midnight oil work late into the night. Main Entry: ↑burn …   English terms dictionary

  • burn the midnight oil — phrasal : to work or study far into the night * * * burn the midnight oil To study late into the night • • • Main Entry: ↑burn burn the midnight oil see under ↑burn1 • • • Main Entry: ↑midnight * * * burn the midnight oil …   Useful english dictionary

  • burn the midnight oil —    If you stay up very late working or studying, you burn the midnight oil.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    A person who burns the midnight oil stays up very late at night in order to finish a piece of work.     Tony is working hard for… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • burn the midnight oil — work or study very late at night    To become a doctor, you have to burn the midnight oil …   English idioms

  • burn the midnight oil — Late night truckers burn the midnight oil …   English expressions

  • Burn the midnight oil —   If you stay up very late working or studying, you burn the midnight oil …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • burn the midnight oil — verb To work studiously, especially late into the night. He was burning the midnight oil all night to finish his paper. Syn: elucubrate, pull an all nighter …   Wiktionary

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